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Salmon, Fish, & Aquaculture
Toxics, Wastes & Health | Transport
CoalWatch Comox Valley Documents

General

Bearing the Heavy Burden of Coal Mining
Maya Stano, April 2011

The Raven Mine: A Regulatory & Fiscal Black Hole
Maya Stano, Environmental Law Centre, U. Victoria, Spring 2011

CoalWatch Comox Valley Leaflet & Handout
September 2010 & April 2011

Comox Coalfield Map
BC Ministry of Mines

Raven Underground Coal Mine Backgrounder
Arthur Caldicott, May 2011 (3.5 mb)

What's Wrong with Coal
Arthur Caldicott, Watershed Sentinel, Jan-Feb 2010

Quinsam Coal's Watershed History
Quentin Dodd, Watershed Sentinel, Jan-Feb 2010

Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal
Clean Air Task Force, Boston, June 2001

Technical Bibliography of the Comox Coalfield
Gwyneth Cathyl-Bickford, P.Gep., 2000

Technical Backgrounders on the Anderson Lake and Bear Deposits
BC Ministry of Mines, various authors

CBC's On The Island with host Gregor Craigie
Interview with John Tapics of Compliance Energy, 14 Sep 2009
Interview with Arthur Caldicott, 15 Sep 2009

Acid Mine Drainage

- drainage flowing from or caused by surface mining, deep mining or coal refuse piles that is typically highly acidic with elevated levels of dissolved metals

Acid Mine Drainage
First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network, 2008

Acid Mine Drainage - Mining and Water Issues in BC
Environmental Mining Council of BC
- informative, but the case studies are dated.

Interactions of Acidic Metal-Rich Coal Pile Runoff with a Subsoil
Michael A Anderson et al, Environmental Science & Technology, Vol 25, No 12, 1991

Negative impact of abandoned coal mine workings on drinking water quality and the health of residents on Vancouver Island
Click here for a less legible and larger version, which includes appendices
Karla Biagioni, 2006

Earthquakes

- the potential hazard or damage from a seismic event is more highly correlated with the intensity of shaking which takes place at the surface, than it is to the magnitude of the earthquake at its epicentre. Surface shaking is measured as Modified Maxilli Intensity (MMI) and magnitude is measured on the better-known Richter scale.

Earthquakes Canada

Relative Hazard from Earthquakes in Southwest BC

100 year earthquake probability map of BC

5 year earthquake incident map of southwest BC

Probabilities Of Significant Earthquake Shaking In Communities Across British Columbia: Implications For Emergency Management
Tuna ONUR1, and Mark R. SEEMANN2, 2004

Environmental Assessments

An Audit of the Environmental Assessment Office's Oversight of Certified Projects
John Doyle, Auditor General of BC, July 8, 2011.

CBC Almanac with John Doyle and Calvin Sandborn,, July 8, 2011

Forest Resources and the Toba Montrose Creek Hydroelectric Project
Forest Practices Board, June 2011

Comparison of the British Columbia and Federal Environmental Assessments for the Prosperity Mine
Mark Haddock, Northwest Institute, July 2011

Federal government to cut CEAA's budget from $30 million to $17 million
Amy Minsky, Vancouver Sun, July 20, 2011

Groundwater and Aquifers

Living Water Smart: Water Act Modernization
A good introduction to groundwater and aquifers

Groundwater Vulnerability Assessments and Integrated Water Resource Management
Jessica E. Liggett, Sonia Talwar, Streamline, Vol13, No1, 2009

Mining & Regulation

+ larger chart

Guide to Processing a Mine Project Application under the British Columbia Mines Act Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, 26 Nov 2009

+ larger chart

Undermining the Value of Clean Land and Water
MayaStano, February 2011

Getting the Coal, Down in the Hole:
a virtual underground tour
Gwyneth Cathyl-Bickford, P.Geo., Colliery Geologist, 2001

Port

Coal dust dispersal around a marine coal terminal (1977–1999),
British Columbia: The fate of coal dust in the marine environment
Ryan Johnson, R.M. Bustin, Intl Journal of Coal Geology, 2005
Copyrighted article. For more information, please contact info@coalwatch.ca

Raven Technical Reports

Technical Report on the Raven Underground Coal Project
(Feasibility Study)
Pincock, Allen & Holt, June 2011 (10 mb)

Technical Report on the Raven Underground Coal Project (Pre-Feasibility Study)
Pincock, Allen & Holt, October 2010 (18 mb)

Technical Report, Raven Coal Property
Pincock, Allen & Holt, June 2010

Preliminary Assessment of an Underground Mining Operation on Compliance Energy Corporation’s Raven Coal Deposit
Peter Cain, Alan Craven, Sept 2007

Technical Report: Raven Coal Property
O.R. Cullingham, June 2007

Technical Report on the Tsable River Coal Property
Stephen L. Gardner, July 2001

Salmon, Fish, & Aquaculture

Aquaculture economics for BC and other Canadian provinces
(includes fish farms and mollusks), DFO

The Community Mapping Network

Map Guide from Project Watershed Society

Fisheries Information Summary System
Fisheries Information Data Queries (FIDQ),
Lake and Stream Individual Fish Data
BC Ministry of Environment

Toxics, Wastes & Health

Ecological Integrity of Streams Related to Human Cancer Mortality Rates
Nathaniel P. Hitt and Martin Hendryx, EcoHealth, June 2010

Negative impact of abandoned coal mine workings on drinking water quality and the health of residents on Vancouver Island
Click here for the less legible and much larger version, which includes appendices
Karla Biagioni, 2006

Two Million Tonnes a Day: A Mine Waste Primer
MiningWatch Canada, 2009

- fact sheets from the First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network, the Center for Science in Public Participation, and other sources, 2008, all available on www.landkeepers.ca

Acid Mine Drainage | Arsenic | Bioaccumulation of Contaminants | Cadmium | Copper | Trace Elements in Mining Waste | Lead | Mercury in Fish | Selenium

Transport

Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Roda, Virginia
Viney P. Aneja, North Carolina State University, 2009

Coal Dust Frequently Asked Questions
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

Exporting Powder River Basin Coal: Risks and Costs
Western Organization of Resource Councils, January 2011